Re: building pg_dump doesn't work

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: building pg_dump doesn't work
Date: 2009-03-03 23:33:15
Message-ID: 20090303233315.GH4482@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> I think this is probably going in the wrong direction. The reason
> gram.h isn't already in the main include tree is that we don't *want*
> all and sundry depending on it --- we have very carefully minimized
> the number of files that depend on the grammar's symbol codes.
>
> ISTM that pg_dump doesn't actually care about the symbol codes, it
> just needs a list of known keywords.

Hmm, I had thought that pg_dump only wanted the header file, not the
keywords.o object file. I now see that I was wrong. I agree that your
proposed solution is a lot better. I'll see about it.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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